The Rambling DBA

As Kimberly blogged about recently, SQLskills is embarking on a new initiative to blog about basic topics, which we’re calling SQL101. We’ll all be blogging about things that we often see done incorrectly, technologies used the wrong way, or where there are many misunderstandings that lead to serious problems. If you want to find all […]

I was recently working with a client that uses R720 servers for SQL Server and during restarts of the server, the POST (Power On Self Test) would stall for as long as 15 minutes before the Windows Server OS would actually begin starting. I did some searching and found the Dell PowerEdge 12G Server Bios […]

This post comes from a question by Tara Kizer on DBA StackExchange related to Compilations/Sec in PerfMon and using Extended Events to try and track the compilations that were happening in SQL Server for one of their clients. There are a number of events in Extended Events that relate to plans in SQL Server, and […]